New Jersey Route 72

New Jersey Route 72 is a state highway in the US state of New Jersey, stretching 28.74 miles from Woodland Township in Burlington County in the northwest to Ship Bottom on Long Beach Island in Ocean County in the southeast. It travels through the Pine Barrens, and, after an interchange with the Garden State Parkway, it becomes a divided highway through built-up areas of Manahawkin and crosses the Manahawkin Bay onto Long Beach Island. The route was established on 1 January 1953.